Improvement in hillside-plows



' and usey my invention, I will proceed to degets behind the mold-boards to drop through.

ing depressed in the center, so that whichever UNITED STATES EDWARD YVAN CAMP, OF READINGTON, NEW J lnlRSEY.

IMPROVEMENT'IN HILLSIDE-PLows.

lSpecification formingr part of Letters Patent No. 23,964, dated May 10, 1859.

To all ullom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD VAN CAMP, of Readington, in the county of ,IIuuterdon and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hillside-Flows; and I do hereby declare the following to be a t'ull, clear, and exact description ot' the construction and operai-ion ofthe same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, making a partot' this specitication, in whichhigure 1 represents a perspective' viewof the plow. Fig. 2 represents a vertical lougitudinal section through the bea-m and parts bcueath it. Figs. 3,4, 5 represent detached parts ofthe plow.

Similar letters of reference, wherel they occur in the separate figures, denote like parts o't' the plow in all the drawings.

Ilillside-plows have. been made to turn nnder the beam ou a vertical pin, or in a plane parallel to the plane of the beam,and they have been made with the double mold-boards cast in one piece, and also with the 'share in one piece. I do not claim any ot' these things regardless ofthe general construction ofthe plow; but the nature-ot' my invention consists in casting or otherwise making thel share, landside, and lan'dside brace of hillside plows in one piece and of the form substantially with that shown in the drawings.

To enable others skilled in the art to make scribe the same with reference to t-he drawings.

A represents the beam of the plow,and B B the handles. To the beam AA .is pivoted by a king-bolt, a, an under beam, 1.0, to whichthe mold-boards l) D are united *by'means of the screw-bolts b b and c c.

E is the share of theplow. It is cast in one piece, with an openingl through it, as seen more particularly in Fig. 4, to allow the dirt that The sole of theshareis of peculiar form, it betr'fint is foremost the other one will not drag,

but be raised above the active one. This share.

is held'to the mold-boards and to the beam C by the screw bolts orrods b b, and other connections-such as 'projections'and recessesmaybe used, if necessary.

F is the landside. It may be made of asteel plate, with two cutting ends slightly curved to form colters. G is a landside-brace. Its` two ends are so .made as to lie snugly against the mold boards, and it hasprojections d d thereon, through holes in which the rods b b pass and hold it firmly to the beam. The landside F is held to the landside -brace G by a scre\vbolt,e. Boththelandside audlaudsidev brace are made in one piece.

The beam C is pivotcd, as above described', to the main plow-beam A by the bolt a, so that the main beam may readily turn around in a horizontal plane on the under beam, C but to keep it from turning when plowing the furrow, I arrange as follows In each end of the beam4 O there is a vertical notch or gain, and in the main beam A there is, hung a lock or latch, f, pivoted at g and controlled by a spring, h. To the top ot' this lock or latch is attached one end of a. rod, cord, or chain, t', the otherend of which extends into convenient position for the operator to catch hold of. When the main beam is to be turned on the under one it is only necessary to pull the rod, cord, Snc., re-

lease the latch, and turn it round, and when reversed end for endthe spring lt throws the latch into the other slot or gaim'aud the two parts are again locked together. The approaching rear points ofthe lnoldboards may be united by a separate piece, as seen at k. They are more readily cast in two pieces. v

Having thus fully described the nature and object of my invention, I would state that I am aware many hillside-plowshave been made which turn around as mine does. This I do not claim; but

" What I do vclaim is- Making the share, the landside, and the landsidefbrace of hillside-plows each in one piece and uniting them together tothe mold-boards and beam in the manner and for the purpose set forth, thus making a cheap, strong, and ef ficieut; plow for hillside-plowing.

EDWARD VAN CAMP. f

.Witnesses:

l Trios. H. UPPERMAN,

O. COHEN. 

